# Daniel Merlin - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T02:50:48.060Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 34
- Lots with prices: 26
- First auction date: 1992-10-30
- Latest auction date: 2025-06-19
- Median realised price: $1,400
- Price range: $440 to $7,700

## Market Takeaway
Daniel Merlin has 34 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,400. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($1,400\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($875 to $3,000\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 38.5% (10 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 61.5% (16 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $1,700
- Previous 12 months median: $600
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-06-19
- Days since latest sale: 313
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 7 lots
- Bonhams: 5 lots
- Ader: 2 lots
- Aqueduto: 2 lots
- Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden: 2 lots
- STAIR: 2 lots
- Subastas Darley: 2 lots
- Abell Auction: 1 lots
- Ansorena: 1 lots
- Apple Tree Auction Center: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-06-19 | Daniel Merlin \(1861\-1933\): Curiosity | STAIR | $3,250
2. 2025-06-19 | Daniel Merlin \(1861\-1933\): Two Kittens | STAIR | $1,700
3. 2025-04-28 | Daniel Merlin \(1861\-1933\) 'Cats and Gladioli' | Flanders Auctions | €1,100
4. 2024-07-04 | Daniel Merlin \(1861\-1933\) "Cats with vase" | Subastas Darley | €500
5. 2024-07-04 | Daniel Merlin \(1861\-1933\) "Cats between curtains" | Subastas Darley | €600
6. 2024-01-31 | Daniel Merlin, O/C "Kitten in a Basket with Doll" | Weiss Auctions | $440
7. 2024-01-26 | DANIEL MERLIN \(France, 1861\-1933\), Two kittens and a Chinese blue and white porcelain jar., Oil on canvas, relined, 15" x 18". Framed 19" x 22". | Eldred's | $1,400
8. 2023-11-09 | Daniel Merlin \(1861\-1933\): Kittens | Abell Auction | $850
9. 2022-03-09 | Daniel Merlin \(French, 1861\-1933\) A basket of mischief | Bonhams | £850
10. 2021-07-11 | Daniel Merlin "Cat with Yarn" Oil on Canvas | Auctions at Showplace | $1,400
11. 2021-03-03 | DANIEL MERLIN \(1861 / 1933\) "Couple of scenes of cats playing". | Ansorena | N/A
12. 2019-04-28 | DANIEL MERLIN \(1861\-1933\) KITTENS OIL ON PANEL | Charleston Estate Auctions | $1,900
13. 2018-09-30 | DANIEL MERLIN \(French, 1861\-1933\) | CRN Auctions | $1,500
14. 2017-05-06 | DANIEL MERLIN \(1861–1933\) | Aqueduto | N/A
15. 2017-05-06 | DANIEL MERLIN \(1861–1933\) | Aqueduto | N/A
16. 2016-02-24 | DANIEL MERLIN \(French, 1861\-1933\) Cat and her Kittens Playing with Ribbons | Bonhams | £937
17. 2015-04-01 | Daniel Merlin \(French, 1861\-1933\) Curious kittens at play oil on canvas 12 | Christie's | $875
18. 2012-09-07 | Daniel Merlin \(French, 1861\-1933\) Mother Cat with Kittens Signed "D. Merlin" l.r. Oil on panel, 13 x 9 1/4 in. \(33.0 x 23.5 cm\), fra... | Skinner | $1,896
19. 2012-06-23 | Daniel MERLIN \(1861\-1933\) Chatons à la coupe de | Ader | €880
20. 2011-11-29 | Daniel Merlin \(French, 1861\-1933\) Kittens at play | Bonhams | £1,625
21. 2010-05-05 | \[ Photograph \] | Ader | €650
22. 2010-03-20 | DANIEL MERLIN \(1861\-1933 FRENCH\) OIL ON PANEL, 3 KITTENS, SIGNED LOWER RIGHT, 10 1/2" X 16" | Apple Tree Auction Center | $900
23. 2009-09-12 | Daniel Merlin | Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden | N/A
24. 2008-04-12 | Daniel Merlin \(French, 1861\-1933\) "Kittens and | St Charles Gallery | $4,080

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